Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tps baseball cards. Derek Van Riper, Enoseres here with you. It's Wednesday, July 21st. As you can see in that single shot at the very beginning of the video, if you're watching on YouTube, moving is progressing. There are boxes everywhere. There's almost nothing left on my walls. The picture over my shoulder of the old

baseball cards from the Burdick collection, that's the only thing left on the walls in the entire

apartment, just to add a pop of color to the videos that I'm doing. And I see you were drinking

your cellar so you don't have to move a bunch of bottles.

It's such a great technique.

The last thing you really want to do is drink all of your boosiest, heaviest beers while trying to pack and get your life together and trying to like solve problems every day.

Like, where am I going to sleep on this day when I'm in between these two cities and where might I stop? I know it'll help. A 15% stout. Yes, that'll clear my head for me. But you know what? There was a celebration for me. I am a Milwaukee Bucks fan. I mentioned this in the last episode. I'm a bandwagon Bucks fan. Hardcore back in the day when I was in high school and college, less so the last couple years, but Janus is the Eric Snow years. Yes. Yeah. Like back

around then. Yeah. I mean, the Ray Allen Glenn Robinson team that got knocked out by the Iverson

Sixers. That team broke my heart. And then when they traded Ray Allen for Sam Cassell, that was the end for me.

That was when I couldn't bear to watch anymore.

Glenn Robinson, that's right.

I remember those years.

It was an interesting game, pretty ugly up front.

But that sort of played into the buck's hands, I think, because in terms of who you

could turn to when the defense, when the, when the, when they rest are allowing fouls and

the defense is stout, Giannis is up there in sort of shacky and way that he can, he can get

you a bucket.

You know, like he can, he can just, you know, back his guy down and turn around. And he was, he had that like four foot hook going. And once he, if he has that going, then you've got a beast and you just got to wait until the other guy's shot start falling. And that's, that's basically what happened, I think lot of answers uh for yannis in that series he was incredible obviously the finals MVP and even if you're not even like a kind of like a basketball fan all season that was a fun series to watch i was hearing that from a lot of people who don't even watch that much basketball they were really really enjoying what unfolded so i was excited got to watch the game with my wife and my in-laws. They've been helping us pack. So we had a celebratory mug, coffee mug, literally coffee mug full of the central waters. Sorry, the glasses are packed. Glasses are packed. The maple bourbon stout, special beer, really good special occasion beer. But I was like, well, it'll taste pretty good out of a mug. You'll smell it really good. And it actually worked out great. So points for being resourceful. On this episode, we will discuss the extension given to Lance Lynn by the White Sox. Brandon Marsh has been promoted by the Angels. We saw Josiah Gray debut for the Dodgers. And we've got a few more questions to get to you from the mailbag as well.

So let's get to it with Lance Lynn. Details of the extension, two years, $38 million with the White Sox club option for 2024.

That would cover his age 35 and 36 seasons, age 37 in 2024, if they end up picking up that option. And I thought we should

try a little Lance Lynn trivia because I have been destroyed by Lance Lynn trivia in the past.

There was a game once upon a time called Lance Lynn or Jake Arieta. And it happened on our

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